hot swap laptop multibay not working?

D mrduck007 at gmail.com
Sun May 29 13:16:03 UTC 2005


exactly what i needed. thanks. 
-d

On 5/29/05, wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 15:50 -0400, D wrote:
> > hi,
> > i'm running hoary on an ibm T42.
> > i had a 2nd battery and a cdrw drive.
> > normally i have the 2nd battery installed, but when i need the cdrw
> > drive, i need to reboot for it to be deteched by the OS.
> >
> > is this normal behavior for hoary, or should it work? i know back in
> > the day when i was running Windows i was able to hot swap devices in
> > the multibay.
> >
> > any sugestions on how to fix this?
> 
> Take a look at the 'hotswap', 'hotswap-gui', and 'hotswap-text' packages
> from universe. It allows swapping of hotbay devices on some laptops with
> proper reprobing of devices.
> 
> <<<john>>>
> 
>




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